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The Weston Hall was designed by Sydney Smirke, who took over from his brother, Sir Robert Smirke, in 1845. The patterns and colours on the ceiling of the Weston Hall were borrowed from classical Greek buildings, which would have been brightly decorated. The electric lamps in the entrance hall are replicas of the original lighting lamps in the ...
Sir Robert Smirke. Robert Smirke (1781-1867) was born in London. His father (1752-1845), also Robert, was a historical painter and book illustrator, from Wigton in West Cumbria. He was a leading architect of the Greek Revival, and had a large London practice, much of which was concerned with public buildings. Although his domestic architecture ...
British Museum. …the Greek Revival style by Sir Robert Smirke, was built on the site of Montagu House in the period 1823–52 and has been the subject of several subsequent additions and alterations. Its famous round Reading Room was built in the 1850s; beneath its copper dome laboured such scholars as Karl….
Robert Smirke. (1753-1845), Painter and illustrator. Regency Portraits Catalogue Entry. Sitter in 8 portraits. Artist associated with 24 portraits. A painter of humorous and sentimental subjects, Robert Smirke became a student of the Royal Academy, London, at the age of nineteen. From 1786, he was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy and ...
Vida y Biografía de Sir Robert Smirke (Londres, 1781-Cheltenham, 1876) Arquitecto británico. Representante del estilo neogriego en Inglaterra, es el artífice del British Museum, el edificio de Correos y el teatro Covent Garden, todos en Londres. Colabora para ampliar la biografía de Sir Robert Smirke
7 de dic. de 2020 · El plan maestro de Sir Robert Smirke de 1823 para el Museo Británico creó un patio magnífico en su centro. Sin embargo, sólo duró unos pocos años antes de que se construyera una nueva biblioteca, diseñada por el hermano de Smirke, Sydney, en el medio de la Sala de Lectura Circular, y el resto del patio se sumergió bajo las pilas de libros.
Robert Smirke fue un destacado arquitecto inglés de la primera mitad del siglo XIX, uno de los líderes de la arquitectura neogriega, aunque también utilizó otros estilos arquitectónicos. Como arquitecto de la Office of Works diseñó varios de los edificios públicos más importantes de su época, incluyendo el cuerpo principal y la ...
